Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$41.25 + shipping
Description: Large Octavo; G-; dark blue spine with gilt text; original publisher's cloth has some scratches to exterior; rubbing wear to edges; pictorial paper label to front; no jacket; shaken binding due to cracked hinges; textblock exterior edges have modestly age toned; deckled fore and tail edges; pictorial endpapers; previous owner's name to front endpaper; frontispiece with tissue guard; interior pages acceptable; illustrated; pp 358. 1364303. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales. Duffield and Company, 1910.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Quarto. 1920 Duffield printing. Original blue cloth, pictorial pastedown to front board. Shelfwear. Hinges cracked and splayed. Front flyleaf loose. Name to pastedown.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: color paste-down front cover illustration. gilt lettering. contents clean and tight
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.42 + shipping
Description: first edition thus 358pp ills.[9 col.plates by Parrish] VERY GOOD- (blue cloth w.col.plate to top board,rubbed and soiled,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,amateur tape repairs to gutters of prelims.,lacks frontis.,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.foxed,plates are clean,spine cracked)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to: ix, 358pp, plus 10 colour plates. Rubbed, blue cloth with pictorial image on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Without dust wrapper. Cracked along internal hinge but not detached.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thick 4to hardcover volume in blue cloth with pictorial paste down cover. Some wear to edges and a little rubbing. End papers cracked but boards holding. No markings 9 plates by Parrish. 358 pages are clean and plates have tissue guards.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales. Duffield, 1910.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, with all plates present. Covers worn and paste down scuffed. Some attempt at repair to the hinges, with tape and some glue present.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth with color pictorial paste-on to front cover. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. 358pp. Ten color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Wear to front and rear gutters. Some "scratching' to plate mounted on front cover. Light edge rubbing to bottom of spine. First edition with Parrish illustrations.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Wonder Book And Tanglewood Tales. Duffield & Company, 1910.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1910 - First Edition Antique Hardcover Book 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" 358 Pages The hardcover book is in fair to good minus condition, free from bends, and writing. The book has wonderful illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. All illustrations are present with the protective tissue paper. There are pages that have edge tears, clipped and foxing. There is a gift inscription written in ink on the front free end page. The boards are in fair to good minus condition with wear along the edges and spine. The binding is tight and square.
Seller: Dara's Library, Wilmette, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Parrish edition. Quarto slate blue cloth with a color pictorial cover onlay and lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 10 magnificent full-page color plates by Parrish, each with a captioned tissue guard. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing to the spine tips and light scuffing to the cover label. A very god copy.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cloth, 10 wonderful illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Cover plate lightly rubbed with one tiny chip at upper left corner, spine head titles bright and fresh, publishers imprint at spine base is dulled; overall a VG+ bright copy of this most handsome volume with only minor lightening to blue cloth at board edges, hinges firm, contemporary (1913) gift inscription to half title page.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Navy cloth cover with gilt stamping and color pictorial is worn with lightly frayed corners and spine caps with scuffs to illustration and bumped corners but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Front end sheet and paste down split in gutter. Antiquated gift inscription on front end sheet dated "xmas1910". Very modest foxing to frontispiece border. Color plates very good and protected by tissue except Cadmus plate and tissue detached and laid-in with some light tattered along outer edge where it was stored slightly sticking out. Pages are lightly toned with very sparse thumbing but in very good condition.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Fine Binding]. Three quarter green morocco over patterned paper boards, raised bands, gilt titles, ruled decorative compartments, top edge gilt, (9.5 x 7.5 inches). First Parrish illustrated Edition. 358 pages, illustrated with 10 captioned, tissue-protected color plates, including frontis. Hawthorne's retelling of the classic Greek myths, illustrated by Parrish. Binding with light rubbing and sunning, heaviest on rear board, typical page toning, all plates clean and bright Size: Quarto
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Duffield and Company, New York. 1910. 358 pgs. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Parrish all present. First, thus. Bound in cloth boards with color pastedown present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852) is a children's book written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he rewrites myths from Greek mythology. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls. The stories are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 358 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, pp. 358. Illustrated with 10 full page illustrations in full color. Bookplate. Bound in illustrated blue cloth, untrimmed, previous owner's inscription on the front blank. A clean copy.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$262.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Navy cloth cover with gilt stamping and color pictorial is frayed at corners and spine caps with scuffs to illustration but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Front end sheet and paste down split in gutter. Antiquated gift inscription on front end sheet dated 1910 along with later book plate. Frontispiece and color plates pristine and protected by tissue. Pages are lightly toned but clean and very good.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Parrish illustrated edition, crown 4to (9.75 x 7.5 inches), pp. ix, (1), (1-2), 3-358, 10 color plates with printed guards after paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Original blue cloth with mounted color plate on the upper side. Near fine copy with slight wear to edges and extremities. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, complete. H10071 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Quarto. Blue cloth gilt with applied illustration on paper. A little rubbing on the front board illustration, very slight repair to a small bit of front hinge, a near fine copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Quarto. Blue cloth gilt with applied illustration on paper. Very slight rubbing on the illustration on the front board, very near fine. A bright and fresh copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: ix, 358 pp. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish. There are ten full-page color plates, each with tissue overleaf captioned in red. 4to, publisher's dark blue cloth with applied color illustration on front panel. First edition. The cover illustration is a little rubbed; light use to cloth at extremities; a clean, tight and sound copy. Publisher's small illustrated flyer laid in (a little creased).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.